Friday, March 24, 2006

The pressure’s increasing, but I’m doing (mostly) ok. It’s sort of like a black hole, increasingly great quantities of schoolwork are being squeezed into an ever-shrinking timeframe with deadlines approaching at nearly the speed of light. Maybe as the deadlines get closer, time will slow down. The deadlines will get closer and closer slower and slower, so that I’ll have an infinite amount of time to do less than infinite work.

YES! That is how I will get through grad school! Unfortunately, it also means my internet connection will be equally lentitudinous (to use a seasonally appropriate word of different etymology than the Catholic season- huh? Well, lentus in Latin means “slow,” whereas “Lent” is short for “Lenten,” which refers to spring in Old English, probably from langez in Middle High German means “long” because in the spring the days get longer).

You know, the whole point of this post was to toot my own horn that I worked all day Wednesday (except for a three-hour nap, but I needed that) instead of procrastinating. But what happened? I got caught up in etymological irrelevance and procrastinated my way over to the OED.

It’s because I’m tired. I’ve been tired since yesterday afternoon, after a busy day. But I did go to minyan today. Yay me.